You pay them 'market rates' and keep the profits they generate for you. It's certainly not illegal, though maybe it should be, It's called capitalism.RobW wrote:And send them out to cover jobs for you, you mean?electron wrote:Or just hire some staff.RobW wrote:I read a good article the other day about buying a few robots and leasing them out on your behalf.
That way you could have several jobs and still spend the day drinking beer.
You'd have to pay them something. I think there are laws about that sort of thing.
One reason the universal basic income is a good idea is to partly remove 'need' from the 'free market' of labour exchange. Labor prices would then reflect what people are "willing to do for the money", not what they are "willing to do to survive".